The Collins Center Update. Volume 12, Issue 4, July-September 2010

Abstract

The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs (ASD-RA), the Honorable Dennis McCarthy, was already ahead of the task, but his initiative was reiterated by direction of the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR): Conduct a comprehensive review of the future role of the Reserve Component, including an examination of the balance between active and reserve. Behind the terse rhetoric of the tasking was a more important issue in the mind of Secretary McCarthy. For years, consideration of active and reserve component employment was most frequently a matter of reinforcement. If the active component were over-tasked, their Service Reserve and National Guard counterparts could be called into service. Traditionally, this was an option not frequently exercised; but given the operational tempo that has characterized the military since 9/11, the comfortable notion of the Reserve Component (RC) serving as a "strategic reserve" has been upended.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA531891

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Central Asia
  • Command And Control
  • Curriculum
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Information Operations
  • Military Education
  • Military Facilities
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Training
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Central Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design